What is your favorite micro/nano drone?

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nopeda

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What is your favorite tiny cheap drone that has some sort of guards around the propellers and is fairly reasonable to control? I'm especially interested in flying indoors.
 
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davidhk129

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If you do have decent space indoor to fly, Holy Stone Shadow HS160 is quite nice.
It's altitude hold feature is exceptional. It really does altitude "hold".
I have it but I burnt one of the motors. Bought a motor replacement, but unable to make it work again.
But it is nice to fly indoor. It has prop guards for protection.
 
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davidhk129 said:
If you do have decent space indoor to fly, Holy Stone Shadow HS160 is quite nice.
It's altitude hold feature is exceptional. It really does altitude "hold".
I have it but I burnt one of the motors. Bought a motor replacement, but unable to make it work again.
But it is nice to fly indoor. It has prop guards for protection.
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Cheap as they seem to be that's still more than I want to pay for this particular type of drone. I'm wanting to experiment with the very cheap, like $15 range. Less than $20. I bought a Syma X20 for about $20 and the controller was messed up right out of the box. The right stick moves smoothly forward and back, but sticks moving from side to side especially when you move it to the left. That makes the drone start to spin and when you get it to stop you can't tell what direction it's facing, etc... It's terrible.

Now I've ordered a JJRC H20 for $20 to try out a 6 blade drone, and a PROPEL ZIPP NANO 2.0 for $18 because I like the look of the controller. I'll probably order a BoldClash BWHOOP B03 also because people have said good things about it in another forum and it's only about $13. Or maybe instead go with the Helifar H803 which is getting out of my intended price range at about $27 if you get it in the US but it has obstacle avoidance and altitude hold and gesture sensing control and I'd like to play around with testing stuff like that.
 
davidhk129

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I also have Helifar H803.
It's fun to play indoor. But short battery life. About 6 min max.

What happens to the Z5? You busted it?
P.S. If you have a large indoor space, Z5 can be flown indoor WITHOUT GPS. BUT, Z5 is meant for outdoors.
 
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davidhk129 said:
I also have Helifar H803.
It's fun to play indoor. But short battery life. About 6 min max.

What happens to the Z5? You busted it?
P.S. If you have a large indoor space, Z5 can be flown indoor WITHOUT GPS.
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The Z5 is doing great. I love that thing!!! Beautiful still shots and the video is good too when it's not very windy. I finally started going high with it 110 meters and 200+ meters distance. Can't even see it any more but when it gets to about 250 it says it loses contact and the drone comes on back.

I also want to play around with little very cheap stuff and also indoor flying. I've never had anything that was good for that, but have had a couple of things that suck for it. A guy I work with said that a 3.7V 600mAh batter will work if it will fit in the Helifar which comes with a 330mAh. I intend to try that out asap after getting it. If you want to try it too the best deal I've seen on those batteries so far is:

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The plugs look like they will fit. He said 25C is the discharge rating but I asked him about that (thinking it might be the plug type) and he didn't say anything more about it than what it means so I'm guessing that part won't be an issue. If you try it before I do please let me know how it goes. I should get the drone on Friday and extra batteries by the 18th.
 
Dugdog47

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Check out the h8 mini only $12 from banggood lol.
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The flight control board on this tiny drone can be flashed to acro mode.
 
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